We research how playfulness helps people think clearer, adapt faster, and hold steady through pressure and setback, showing up in therapy rooms, classrooms, and long relationships, not only at work.
Original studies with real methodology, starting with playfulness as use of self in psychotherapists.
Essays from Chris and invited contributors on how playfulness shows up when things get hard.
Conversations with people who lean on playfulness professionally. In production now.
This study looks at playfulness as "use of self" in psychotherapy, a resource practitioners choose to draw on in the room, not a technique taught in a workshop.
Follow this research →We treat playfulness as a resource people already have, not a personality trait some people are lucky enough to be born with. The Lab exists to study that properly, across therapy, education, ageing, grief, and the everyday work of being with people. As a CIC, there's nothing to sell here, just the thinking.